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tlayecolli.

Headword: 
tlayecolli.
Principal English Translation: 

work; a finished project; a completed job

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaecolli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑjekoːlli
Alonso de Molina: 

Acabada obra. tlayecolli. tlatzonquixtilli.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario de la lengua mexicana, republished by Julio Platzmann (Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1880 [1571]), 2v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn iquac o ce ya tequipa yn oc. cequiti omotlatlayecoltia ça quicepa [sic] yn itlayecol = When one of these has gone on tribute labor, the others go on making a living. They just [unite] the product of their work. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 210–211.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns